Malaysia vs Romania: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area

Malaysia
528.94 1000 ha
in 2024
Romania
568.7 1000 ha
in 2024
Malaysia rank
29th
Romania rank
26th

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area over time

  • Malaysia
  • Romania
0200400600200120122024

How they compare

Romania currently reports 568.7 1000 ha against 528.94 1000 ha in Malaysia, a difference of 39.76 1000 ha.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Romania has been ahead every year.

Malaysia ranks 29th and Romania ranks 26th of 223 countries.

Romania has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Malaysia Romania Difference Ahead
2000s 467.59 1000 ha 562.63 1000 ha 95.04 1000 ha Romania
2010s 505.04 1000 ha 563.48 1000 ha 58.45 1000 ha Romania
2020s 523.84 1000 ha 567.24 1000 ha 43.4 1000 ha Romania

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area, Malaysia or Romania?
Romania, at 568.7 1000 ha against 528.94 1000 ha in Malaysia as of 2024.
What is the difference in artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area between Malaysia and Romania?
39.76 1000 ha, with Romania ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Malaysia and Romania?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Malaysia and Romania rank globally for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Malaysia ranks 29th and Romania ranks 26th of 223 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.